Broken Promises, Unresolved Harms: World Bank Financed Dams in Asia

Across the Mekong Region, and morebroadly, Asia, the World Bank Group’s (WBG) support for hydropower dam build-out spans several decades, with growing concerns over the social and environmental impacts of large dams. Examples include the Bhumibol, Khao Laem, Pattani and Srinagarind Dams in Thailand in the 1960s and ’70s, and support for damming the Chico Riverin the Philippines in the 1970s-80s.